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Lakota America : a new history of Indigenous power / Pekka Hämäläinen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Lamar series in western history.
- The Lamar Series in Western History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lakota Indians--History.
- Lakota Indians.
- United States--History--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 530 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then-in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion-as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Dark Matter of History
- A Place in the World
- Facing West
- The Imperial Cauldron
- The Lakota Meridian
- The Call of the White Buffalo Calf Woman
- Empires
- War
- Shapeshifters
- Upside-Down Soldiers
- Epilogue: The Lakota Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-505) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-24874-1
- OCLC:
- 1122453750
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